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  • Twenty-five years chasing the dream of enterprise social networking

    The fuss around Microsoft’s announcement of “the enterprise network and the future of work” at the SharePoint Conference (SPC14) in Las Vegas this week reminded me that we have been seeking to extract better information about the complex interconnections that exist between humans working in large corporations for many years.…

  • VAX Notes remembered

    I was surprised and delighted to come across a White Paper called “The Camelot of Collaboration” that documents the use of a now-forgotten technology called VAX Notes within the late-lamented Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Collaboration comes naturally to many today given information presented on blogs, social networking sites such as Facebook, the…

  • ALL-IN-1 trivia quiz from 1985

    ALL-IN-1 was a forms-driven Office Automation (OA) product released by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Its origin were in software called the Charlotte Package of Office Systems Solutions (CP/OSS) written in 1981-82 by DEC Software Services in Charlotte, NC. The software was subsequently released by DEC as ALL-IN-1 1.1 in late…